"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Violence And Justice Monopoly
"Do you conduct commerce? Better figure out how to give our 'security company' a cut of the profit. Earn a paycheck? About a third of it goes to our security company. Want to buy a high-flow toilet for your home? Better not let the security company find out; they don’t allow it. Want to sell raw milk? The security company won’t allow that either. Are you Iraqi, Afghan, Egyptian? Our security company is going to walk all over you."
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